Patents by Inventor Jang Mi Lee

Jang Mi Lee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240135865
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image based on output image data, a voltage curve controller generating a converted peak luminance, a converted full white luminance, a converted peak grayscale, and a converted full white grayscale from a reference peak luminance and a reference full white luminance based on a gain mode and a gain value, and generating converted voltage curves including a first converted voltage curve from a first reference voltage curve based on the converted peak grayscale and the converted full white grayscale, and a driving voltage controller generating a driving voltage from the converted voltage curves based on a load and a maximum grayscale value of input image data. A voltage of the first converted voltage curve with respect to a peak grayscale is equal to a voltage of the first reference voltage curve with respect to the converted peak grayscale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: EUNJIN CHOI, GEONHWI PARK, JANG-MI LEE, KIHYUN PYUN
  • Publication number: 20240098900
    Abstract: A flexible circuit film including a first flexible film, a second flexible film facing the first flexible film, and a plurality of wirings arranged between the first flexible film and the second flexible film. The wirings have different widths and bend in different directions, and a guide film including a material more rigid than the first and second flexible films is arranged on ends of the first flexible film. The guide film includes a tear-preventing portion overlapping with a bending portion of a shortest one of the wirings while covering portions of an inner edge near inner corners of a U-shaped flexible circuit film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jun HO HWANG, Jang Mi LEE
  • Patent number: 11922871
    Abstract: An emissive display device includes a display area which includes a plurality of pixels, and a driver disposed at a side of the display area, where the driver includes at least two emission signal stages disposed in one row, and an input signal line connected to the emission signal stages, and the at least two emission signal stages are connected to the same input signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae Min Kim, Min Jae Jeong, Jang Mi Kang, Hyun Joon Kim, Jun Hyun Park, Cheol-Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 11908365
    Abstract: A display device including: a display area including pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, the display area including a plurality of signal output lines connected to each of the scan lines through a contact; a data driver including a first data driving circuit at a side of the display area; a scan driver disposed at the side of the display area; and a timing controller, wherein the first data driving circuit includes: output buffers which respectively output data signals to first to k-th data lines (k is an integer greater than 2) of the data lines; and an output delay controller which transmits the data signals to the output buffers through first to k-th transmission lines, and controls delay times of the data signals output to the first to k-th transmission lines based on position information of a pixel row to which the data signals are supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11908433
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11908383
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a data driver, a timing controller, a memory device, and a power voltage generator. The display panel includes pixels. The data driver is configured to apply data voltages to the pixels. The timing controller is configured to control the data driver, to generate a test strobe signal by shifting a phase of a strobe signal, to perform a test write operation and a test read operation with the memory device based on the test strobe signal, and to increase a power voltage when an error bit occurs in the test write operation and the test read operation. The memory device is configured to sample memory data received from the timing controller using the strobe signal and to store sampled memory data. The power voltage generator is configured to apply the power voltage to the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jang-Mi Lee
  • Patent number: 11881152
    Abstract: A display device includes a power supply generating a first power voltage, a second power voltage, and a third power voltage. The display device further includes a first power line to which the first power voltage is applied, a second power line to which the second power voltage is applied, and a readout line to which the third power voltage is applied. The display device further includes a display panel, which includes a pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element connected between the first power line and the second power line, and a switching transistor connected between one electrode of the light emitting element and the readout line. The power supply changes a voltage level of the third power voltage based on a total current flowing from the power supply to the display panel according to the first and second power voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee
  • Publication number: 20230386385
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a power voltage generator, a current sensor, a driving controller and a data driver. The power voltage generator is configured to generate a power voltage and output the power voltage to the display panel. The current sensor is configured to sense a panel current of the display panel and output an overcurrent signal based on the panel current being greater than a threshold value. The driving controller is configured to generate a compensation value based on the overcurrent signal and generate a data signal to which the compensation value is applied. The data driver is configured to generate a data voltage based on the data signal and output the data voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: KIHYUN PYUN, JANG-MI LEE
  • Patent number: 11829210
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a main board and a connection board attached to the main board. The connection board includes a base board including a connecting pad area and a mounting area, wherein the connection board is attached to the main board in the connecting pad area, and wherein the mounting area is spaced apart from the connecting pad area in a first direction and includes a driving chip mounted thereon. The connection board further includes first connection pads disposed on the connecting pad area of the base board, and second connection pads disposed on the connecting pad area of the base board. The main board includes first main pads connected to the first connection pads in a one-to-one connection and a second main pad connected to the second connection pads in a many-to-one connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoseok Yun, Taegon Kim, Myoungseop Song, Jongmin Shim, Jang-Mi Lee, Kihyun Pyun
  • Publication number: 20230368724
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a data driver, a timing controller, a memory device, and a power voltage generator. The display panel includes pixels. The data driver is configured to apply data voltages to the pixels. The timing controller is configured to control the data driver, to generate a test strobe signal by shifting a phase of a strobe signal, to perform a test write operation and a test read operation with the memory device based on the test strobe signal, and to increase a power voltage when an error bit occurs in the test write operation and the test read operation. The memory device is configured to sample memory data received from the timing controller using the strobe signal and to store sampled memory data. The power voltage generator is configured to apply the power voltage to the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jang-Mi Lee
  • Publication number: 20230351932
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display panel including an active area including a first region and a second region, a plurality of first circuit films, a plurality of second circuit films, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a first circuit cable, a second circuit cable, and a main circuit board. The main circuit board includes: a power generation unit, which provides power to the display panel, a first power measurement unit electrically connected to the first circuit cable and the power generation unit, and, which measures a first current provided to the first region, a second power measurement unit electrically connected to the second circuit cable and the power generation unit, and, which measures a second current provided to the second region, and an overcurrent protection unit, which cuts off the power based on the reference current and each of the first and second currents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kihyun PYUN, Jang-Mi LEE
  • Patent number: 11790862
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a gate driver configured to provide a gate signal to the display panel, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the display panel, and a driving controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver and to receive input image data to generate output image data corresponding to the data signal. The driving controller is configured to determine a scale factor based on a total load value of previous input image data and to compare the current input image data with the previous input image data to determine whether to apply the scale factor to the current input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Mi Lee, Kihyun Pyun, Hyoseok Yun
  • Publication number: 20230298528
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, a voltage generator, a current detector, and a current controller. The display panel includes a pixel for receiving a driving voltage. The voltage generator generates the driving voltage, determines a voltage level of the driving voltage based on a voltage control signal, and performs a protection operation in response to a protection signal. The current detector detects a driving current of the display panel and outputs a current signal corresponding to the detected driving current. The current controller includes a current comparison unit that generates a result signal by comparing a present current level of the current signal from the current detector to a previous current level and a protection operating unit that receives the result signal and outputs the protection signal based on a change in the load and a difference between the target current and the current signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: JANG-MI LEE, EUNJIN CHOI, KIHYUN PYUN
  • Patent number: 11749164
    Abstract: A controller to drive a display includes a voltage code generator and a voltage code compensator. The voltage code generator is configured to generate a first voltage code to drive pixels in the display based on input image data. The voltage code compensator is to generate a second voltage code to drive the pixels by compensating zero-grayscale codes of the first voltage code based on the zero-grayscale codes of the first voltage code, one-grayscale codes of the first voltage code, and the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jang-Mi Lee
  • Publication number: 20230274686
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel which displays an image based on image data, a power supply which provides a driving voltage to the display panel through a power line, a current sensor which generates first current data including average, minimum, and maximum sensing currents of a first period based on sensing currents generated by sampling a current flowing through the power line at a sampling frequency, generates second current data including average, minimum, and maximum sensing currents of a second period less than the first period based on the sensing currents, and includes a first controller controlling the image data or the power supply based on the second current data, and a timing controller which communicates with the current sensor, and includes a second controller controlling the image data or the power supply based on the first and second current data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: KIHYUN PYUN, JANG-MI LEE
  • Patent number: 11741889
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel component including pixels; a timing controller, which generates adjusted image data by converting grayscale values of input image data based on a gain value and generates first and second control signals control signal in response to an input control signal; a scan driver, which supplies a scan signal to the pixels in response to the first control signal; a data driver, which generates a data signal corresponding to the adjusted image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels based on the second control signal and the adjusted image data, and an image controller, which analyzes an input image in the input image data and gradually decreases the gain value during a first control period when the input image is a still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang Mi Lee, Ki Hyun Pyun, Hyun Joo Seo
  • Publication number: 20230252955
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Jang Mi LEE, Eun Jin CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230245615
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel component including pixels; a timing controller, which generates adjusted image data by converting grayscale values of input image data based on a gain value and generates first and second control signals control signal in response to an input control signal; a scan driver, which supplies a scan signal to the pixels in response to the first control signal; a data driver, which generates a data signal corresponding to the adjusted image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels based on the second control signal and the adjusted image data, and an image controller, which analyzes an input image in the input image data and gradually decreases the gain value during a first control period when the input image is a still image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Jang Mi LEE, Ki Hyun PYUN, Hyun Joo SEO
  • Patent number: 11657780
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11653449
    Abstract: A flexible circuit film including a first flexible film, a second flexible film facing the first flexible film, and a plurality of wirings arranged between the first flexible film and the second flexible film. The wirings have different widths and bend in different directions, and a guide film including a material more rigid than the first and second flexible films is arranged on ends of the first flexible film. The guide film includes a tear-preventing portion overlapping with a bending portion of a shortest one of the wirings while covering portions of an inner edge near inner corners of a U-shaped flexible circuit film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ho Hwang, Jang Mi Lee